How to get out of Africa?

[Will Saxon]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of 
> Wayne M Barnes
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: How to get out of Africa?
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> 
> Dear FreeBSD,
> 
>    During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone.
> 
>    I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find
> out to reset my time zone.
> 
>    Does anybody else know?  I installed 5.1 from the CD.

I think that you can copy the file that matches your timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ over top of /etc/localtime. 

For me it is EST5EDT and I usually link it (ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime) but that might not be the recommended way. 

-Will